Year of Desert’s Slumber

Year of the Priest’s Defiance

15: Birel Windchaser arrives in Tyr with her caravan and observes wild celebrations and the building of a new society.

16: A Balican silt dromond arrives on the island of Almanzar to claim shardminds for the Dragon’s levy, leading to a battle that results in the obliteration of the shardmind monastery/community of Almanzar and the capture of Zuri.

27: Zuri arrives in Altaruk after escaping from The Olive Vine silt dromond

9: The PCs fight throughout the night, killing myconids and members of the Red Chord. Finally, exhausted, they retire to the hejkin lair again to rest, study, and sleep, awakening in the early evening of 10 Sorrow fully refreshed.

10: The PCs kill the silk wyrm adult nesting in the altar room of the Place of Forgetting and retrieve the beautiful sword they were hired to track down.

17: Return of the PCs to Tyr; meet with Rhey and then Choum and turn over the sword

18: Execution of the noble Murter Dyan and two other members of the True; Tithian announces his plan to deny the Dragon his levy again. Rikus survives an assassination attempt by grell assault at the Crimson Legion’s HQ.

18: Birel sends a special present to Nibenay.

19: PCs depart for Altaruk.

21: PCs arrive at the Mahindrazal.

22: The Crimson Legion leaves Tyr without revealing its marching plans to anyone.

22: Orders arrive from Urik to House Stel and other obsidian producers that no new obsidian contracts are to be negotiated

25: A company of Balican soldiers and templars depart Altaruk with Balic’s thousand-slave levy, travelling for most of the day

26: PCs arrive at Altaruk in the early evening and witness Balican legionnaires returning to Altaruk, slaveless, from the southern mountains.

28: PCs hired by Galad Full Moons and begin to guard the slave pens; the Gulgans arrive back in Altaruk without their slaves.

29: Ambush and assassination of Ko-Tok in the early morning hours. Departure of the Night Runners and mercenaries for the Dragon’s Altar, with the Zatla Cowboys attached to the Red Chord squad. Agma is freed from imprisonment. Eenga and the Red Chord slain while on patrol with the Zatla Cowboys in the hills.

30 : The column arrives at the Dragon’s Altar as dawn breaks. The Zatla Cowboys witness the annihilation of a thousand slaves and nearly become victims themselves while rescuing some.

Smolder

1: Druze of Mericles pays the Night Runners and mercenaries and departs Altaruk for Tyr in the morning. In the evening, the Zatla Cowboys head to Tyr.

16: The PCs are ambushed by Smoking Crown Initiates and, despite bad burns, manage to kill them all. They arrive at Bloodyfoot and team up with K’Tek the genasi and ex-Smoking Crown Initiate.

17: The Zatla Cowboys, with K’Tek in tow, descend into the Black Wash. In the Cracked Basalt camp of House Lubar, 70 women and children are burned to death by the Smoking Crown Initiates.

18: The Zatla Cowboys are twice ambushed by burned corpses in the Black Wash.

20: The Zatla Cowboys leave Bloodyfoot to return to Makla for investigations.

21: The Zatla Cowboys arrive in Makla and bed down at the Obsidian Crown, after asking questions around at the Crown and at the Climbing Kank.

22: Spending the day at the Lavaflow, the Zatla Cowboys uncover crucial information about General Akkad and his lover Drewet.

23: Visiting the Lake of Golden Dreams and then returning, Zuri and K’tek spend the day studying rituals while Bost makes snowshoes.

24: The Zatla Cowboys return to the Lake of Golden Dreams and encounter Fa’ar the halfling. Finishing him off and retrieving Drewet’s helm, they return to Makla (encountering Vesuvius the Smoking Crown Initiate along the way) and have a bath and a long sleep.

25: The PCs witness a performance of The Fate of Yaramuke by the King’s Order of Storytellers and also an execution of a dwarven member of the Smoking Crown Initiates, who was behind the recent massacre at Cracked Basalt.

26: The PCs visit with General Akkad and secure his assistance. They visit the Lion’s Mane and trick Templar Ekur into allowing them to take the ritual used to crack the Rim of Dawn ten years ago, then depart for the Black Wash on kanks.

28: The confrontation in the Black Wash occurs in the evening, resulting in the death of General Akkad and the elimination of Drewet and her troops.

Morrow

1: The party arrives back in Makla and meets Androcles. At Kish HQ, they are surrounded by Urikite soldiers and escape, striking southward into the desert under cover of night.

8: Attacked by halfling rangers in the night!

12: Birel bids the party farewell and runs ahead to Tyr.

13: Halflings attack again. Farmers from Bellinga arrive to assist. The Zatla Cowboys attend the final day of Felix’s wedding feast.

18: The PCs arrive back in Tyr and are immediately escorted to meet with the Revolutionary Council. An incredibly event-filled day ends with the Cowboys spending the night at their very own estate.

21: The day Tithian has ordered that the Tyrian Guard and Crimson Legion be ready to march.

23: General Elias’ forces meet the Urikite legion somewhere between Ft. Skonz and Ft. Iron; they engage, force the Urikites to set up defencive lines, and then retreat southward.

27: The main Tyrian Guard force and the Crimson Legion arrive and a huge battle with the Urikite army ensues. After a day of fighting, both armies pull back without a clear advantage on either side.

SUNDESCENDINGRest

The Veiled Alliance proves itself in a battle against the Urikite military

GatherFestival of the Cooling SunBreeze

The Crimson Legion convinces a Urikite slave legion to come over to the Tyrian side

Rikus leads a small force in pursuit of the Family Lubar troops for weeks, culminating in a standoff at the dwarven village of Kled

Mist

Keyleth Windchaser and several other Windchaser elves are captured while running obsidian shipments for Urik. The Zatla Cowboys notify Birel Windchaser that her sister is in captivity in the Tyrian dungeons.

(Lowsun, the midpoint of the year)

SUNASCENDINGBloomHaze

After the dray agree to provide Tyr with undead war beetle technology, the Zatla Cowboys participate in a rezhatta hunt.

Festival of the Soaring Sun

A friendly fire incident between the Crimson Legion and the Tyrian Guard results in bad feelings and casualties on both sides.

HoardWind

The southernmost Tyrian argosy falls to Urikite forces led by Strategos Haamdan, leading to a collapse of the Tyrian forces and the closing of the southern road to Altaruk

Year of the Dragon’s Agitation

HIGHSUNSorrow

The Dragon’s Levy is paid out of Urikite captives and managed by Druze of Mericles and the Night Runner elves.